SA Express News: How the Spurs Built Kawhi Leonard Into A Monster

[Silver&Black]

A monster who has eye infections, knee and respiratory problems at the young age of 24 years old? Yikes.

And a Ring...
And a FMVP...
And a DPOY...
And might be the best two way player in the NBA...
And is the best player on a contending team...

Yikes.

[dabom]

And a Ring...
And a FMVP...
And a DPOY...
And might be the best two way player in the NBA...
And is the best player on a contending team...

Yikes.

Don't do him like that B.

[bic50]

And a Ring...
And a FMVP...
And a DPOY...
And might be the best two way player in the NBA...
And is the best player on a contending team...

Yikes.

[manu2timdynasty]

A monster who has eye infections, knee and respiratory problems at the young age of 24 years old? Yikes.

Having a Kanye profile pic doesn't make you black...posers.

[Ice009]

Interesting that the Spurs were looking at drafting Jimmy Butler as a fallback option if they couldn't land Kawhi. Holy this front office.

Yeah, that stuck out to me in part 2. If they didn't get Kawhi, it looks like they had a pretty good fallback option. They should have grabbed Butler anyway. I think he was still there, wasn't he?

[Kool Bob Love]

Having a Kanye profile pic doesn't make you black...posers.

What the does that have to do with the thread? Go wash your face b, looking like a clown.

[manu2timdynasty]

What the does that have to do with the thread? Go wash your face b, looking like a clown.

Troll getting trolled...Not too bright are you?

[ChumpDumper]

The krew s up another Kawhi thread.

[spurraider21]

So you know who dabom's troll is. Because his join date is August 2013, first post was July 2014, years after "day 1".

So who is it?

first post was after kawhi gets finals mvp

"i've been saying it for years"

...

[Arcadian]

To be fair, they didn't build a monster, he just is a monster...

[Kool Bob Love]

Troll getting trolled...Not too bright are you?

dont quote me anymore clown.

[manu2timdynasty]

dont quote me anymore clown.

Struck a nerve did I?

[spurraider21]

So you know who dabom's troll is. Because his join date is August 2013, first post was July 2014, years after "day 1".

So who is it?

first post was after kawhi gets finals mvp

"i've been saying it for years"

...

[bic50]

Struck a nerve did I?

Keep quoting it. It's nothing but a little . All it'll do is hiss at you.

[ducks]

Interesting that the Spurs were looking at drafting Jimmy Butler as a fallback option if they couldn't land Kawhi. Holy this front office.

Butler is a two way player

[SAGirl]

This, from the article, sums up what I love about the Spurs:

Let Leonard’s agent, Brian Elfus, tell it.
“At the end of the day, the draft is about where you end up, what kind of situation you’re in,” Elfus said. “I’ve got a strange su ion — no, I know for a fact — if Kawhi had ended up in a different place, he wouldn’t be nearly the player he is today.
“I think everybody counts their blessings every day he ended up in San Antonio.”

[100%duncan]

Just read all 3 parts now. What a nice string of articles being a big kawhi I still discovered some new things from it. Thanks brah

[100%duncan]

Butler is a two way player

Yes which makes the front office really smart. Out of the many players their top 2 choices were kawhi and butler prolly the top 2 best players of that draft.

[r0drig0lac]

Having a Kanye profile pic doesn't make you black...posers.

hahahaha holy !

[jag]

Shout out to Apo and dabom for seeing it from day 1, tbh..

[Brazil]

Shout out to Apo and dabom for seeing it from day 1, tbh..

first post was after kawhi gets finals mvp

"i've been saying it for years"

...

tbh...

[dabom]

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/view...220#start_here

Pistons forum in AUG 2013 debating Greg Monroe vs Kawhi.

I called Kawhi the 3rd best SF in the league behind Durant and Lebron. Got banned for it. In 2013 Brazil still calling Kawhi a "role player". He was still using the label into 2015.

My names were dandude and chief12 both I made and got banned for saying that. I already knew the kid was a stud since his Spurs debut.

I even called Tony the best PG in 2013. Not a player fan unlike a few here.

[dabom]

"not sure if serious? the best point guard in the league, allstar, mvp candidate, leader, experience in playoffs, battle tested, closer, finals mvp. any gm in the league puts a 18mil a year tag on him if he goes into free agency. let me remind you nash's peak years were between 33-37ish. tony parker is 31 years old. anyone in the league takes parker instead of monroe. now you're just saying crazy things. "

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1268220******=120#start_here

How tony has fallen.

[dabom]

I said he gets better with higher usage.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Butler is a two way player

This is a post that could be taken on out of context.